Alemany i Arias, Anna (Date of defense: 2014-11-04)
Codification of genetic information; regulation of gene expression; transport of nutrients inside cells; immune protection against infectious agents; transduction of external signals... These are some ...
Rissone, Paolo (Date of defense: 2023-04-20)
[eng] This doctoral work investigates nucleic acids' thermodynamic and kinetic properties. The main objective is the characterization of the energetics and the folding mechanisms driving the hybridization ...
Lorenzo Ros, Sara de (Date of defense: 2015-01-23)
In the field of biophysics, the study of the thermodynamic characteristics of biomolecules, such as DNA, RNA or proteins, allows us to understand more about the building blocks of life. The thermodynamic ...
Sales Pardo, Marta (Date of defense: 2002-11-22)
Disorder is present in many systems in nature and in many different versions. For instance, the dislocations of a crystal lattice, or the randomness of the interaction between magnetic moments. One of ...
Huguet Casades, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2011-02-04)
[eng] Molecular biophysics is a scientific discipline that studies biomolecules. This discipline has experienced a revolution thanks to the development of single- molecule techniques. These techniques ...
Camuñas i Soler, Joan (Date of defense: 2015-03-02)
Single-molecule techniques allow to following biomolecular reactions with unprecedented resolution. Particularly, optical tweezers can be used to manipulate and apply forces to individual molecules ...
Martínez Monge, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2019-05-28)
Single-molecule experiments have emerged as a powerful tool that allow researchers to investigate the physical behavior of individual molecules with unprecedented resolution. The feasibility exerting ...
Gironella Torrent, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-04-27)
In this thesis, we employ noise-correlation force spectroscopy measurements using LOT to extract valuable information about the passive and active fluctuations of DNA molecules and red blood cells. We ...
Viader Godoy, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-01-29)
In this thesis, single-molecule experiments using LOT are employed to extract accurate information about the thermodynamics and kinetics of various molecular systems, with special emphasis on the elastic ...
Rico Pastó, Marc (Date of defense: 2022-03-22)
In the present thesis, single-molecule experiments have been carried out using optical tweezers with a temperature controller. Employing equilibrium and non-equilibrium experiments, the free energy, ...